the new year
Bubba Kadane - Guitar/Vocal
Matt Kadane - Guitar/Vocal
Chris Brokaw - Drums
Mike Donofrio - Bass
Peter Schmidt - Guitar
the new year is a band which features the kadane
brothers, matt and bubba, leaders of the great, late band bedhead.
in 1998, after seven years, three critically-acclaimed full-length albums,
two eps, and various singles, bedhead split. the kadane brothers,
never intending to quit playing music, recruited three old friends to
play the songs that would have eventually made the fourth bedhead
record had they remained together.
as in bedhead, bubba and matt are singing and playing guitar in
the new year. chris brokaw is playing drums. he plays guitar in come
and also played drums with codeine. peter schmidt plays guitar.
peter used to fill in with bedhead when they needed that third
guitar to push them over the top. the fifth member is mike donofrio on
bass. mike also plays with saturnine.
newness ends should please bedhead
fans as well as those who may have appreciated the kadane brothers but
were turned off by the slow pacing. the new year's songs are more immediate
and varied than its predecessor's. hear the almost sing along "gasoline",
the frenetic "carne lavare" or the drum heavy "the block
that doesn't exist." it's also hard to imagine the opener, "half
a day," or the album's four-and-a-half minute opus, "one plus
one minus one equals one", on any bedhead record. and yet the continuities
remain: in the linear "reconstruction", the languid "simple
life", the waltzy "alter ego," the country-ish "great
expectations," and the emotionally-charged album closer, newness
ends
all together these songs make an extremely beautiful and essential album
for the new millennium. the new year for the new year.